Nursing unit



R. MEAD NURSING UNIT March 1 1960 Filed June 6, 1955 INVENTOR. RAYNORMEAD to 2,926,805 Patented Mar. 1, 1.969.

2,926,805 NURSING UNIT Raynor Mead, New York, NY.

Application June '6, 1955, Serial No. 513,291

1 Claim. (Cl. 215-11) This invention relates to useful improvements intransparent nursing units and more particularly its purpose is forincreasing the functions of such units with or without food in thebottle, such as milk to encourage an infant to consume the milk, and toteach an infant the alphabet and other objects with pictorialrepresentations, and to amuse and educate an infant when the bottle ispartly empty or empty and with the feeding nipple inverted to storage.

An object of this invention is to provide a nursing bottle having atleast one transparent sidewall and the opposite side wall formed withlarge and, small convexoconvex protuberances in a zigzag arrangement,and having inverted figures and the inverted alphabet imprinted orformed on the wall or preferably on the protuberances thereof when thebottle is right-side-up, so that when the bottle is inverted like in afeeding position with the protuberances positioned at the bottom thefigures and the alphabet will be visible through the bottle rightside-up.

Another object of this invention is that the protuberance will drain themilk film away from the figures more rapidly when the bottle is invertedto the feeding angle.

Still another object of this invention is to provide a bottle withatleast one blind side wall, but three or more blind side walls may bepreferred, for the purpose of preventing an infant from viewing thefigures until the infant is nursing at the bottle, or observing andstudying the figures through the bottle when the latter is partly emptyor empty and the feeding nipple is inverted-and sealed to the, bottlewith the sealing disc and retaining cap used on this type nursingbottle.

Another object is to have a life-like figure handle formed on thesealing disc to hold and adjust the bottle to the desired position whenthe nipple is inverted to storage, and the contents or milk is to beused at a later time.

Another object is to provide a nursing bottle having the aforementionedcharacteristics formed on a side wall that slants inwardly to near thebase of the bottle.

Still another object is that the protuberances formed on an inwardlyslanting wall will bring the figures into a clear view rn ore rapidly asthe level of the contents of the bottle recedes, and to prevent excesstilting of the bottle for an infant.

These and other objects, features and advantages of this invention willbe manifest in the following detailed description and accompanyingdrawing of preferred embodiments thereof.

In the drawing wherein corresponding parts are indicated by the samereference numerals:

Figure 1 is an elevational view of the bottle 8 showing the figures andalphabet inverted on a side wall with the bottle right-side-up.

Figure 2 is a view partly elevational and partly crosssectional ininverted position and showing in elevation the wall opposite from thatshown in Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a modification of Figure 1 in cross section showing aninclined front face.

Figure 4 shows a top plan view of Figure 1.

Figure 5 shows a perspective view of an infant feeding from the nippleof the bottle. i

Figure 6 shows a perspective view of an infant holding the life-likefigure to adjust the bottle as desired.

Referring to the drawing in detail.

Bottle 8 is formed of glass or any other suitable material, is of thetype generally referred to as a wide mouthed nursing bottle, and issquare in horizontal crosssection, while the illustrated bottle 8 issquare in crosssection other forms and shapes embodying theconvexoconvex protuberances and the inverted representations thereon maybe used, the alphabet may be completed on additional bottles for salespurpose and any desired inverted configuration may be used.

In Figure 1 is shown bottle 8 formed with convexoconvex protuberances ina zigzag arrangement on a side wall 11 which is opposite to thetransparent wall 12 in Figure 2, inverted figures and the invertedalphabet 13 and 14 are imprinted or formed on said protuberances 9 and10, and looking at side wall 1 1 you see the inverted figures and theinverted alphabet 13 and 14 disposed in the inverted position when thebottle 8 is right-side-up as shown in Figure 1, so that when the bottle8 is invented like in a feeding position with the said protuberancespositioned at the bottom an infant can view the representations throughthe bottle righ-t-side-up, as shown in Figure 2. Thus, an infant canview and study the figures 13 and the alphabet 14 through the bottle 8rightside-upwith or without food in the bottle. But one of the mainobjects is to encourage an infant to consume the food while nursing atthe bottle, because the infant must consume the food to view therepresentations. There are times when only a few ounces of food such asmilk mixture is placed in the bottle 8 to be used at a later time, andthe feeding nipple 15 is inverted and sealed to the bottle 8 with asealing disc 17 and a retaining cap 16, and at this time an infant canbe more amused by holding the lifelike-figure handle 18 with thetransparent hollow chamber 19 in Figure 2 and adjust the bottle 8 to thedesired positions, it is natural for an infant to take hold of anattractive and amusing handle such as the life-like figure handle formedwith the transparent hollow chamber 19 formed on a disc 17 in Fig ure 2which may be of any desired life-like configuration. In Figure 3 isShown a side view of the convexo-convex protuberances 10 which willdrain the milk film away from the representations and give a more rapidclear view through the bottle 8 when the latter is inverted to thedesired positions, the protuberances 9 and 10 may be formed on aninwardly slanting wall 20 in Figure 3. The figures 13 and alphabet 14can be viewed right-side-up when the bottle is full and in a feedingposition.

Having thus described various preferred embodiments of this invention,it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to thoseprecise embodiments, since changes and modifications, obvious to oneskilled in the art, may be effected therein without departing from thescope of the invention which is intended to be defined in the appendedclaim. I

What I claim is:

A transparent nursing-bottle, substantialy polygonal in cross sectionand having a mouth, adapted to receive a removable flanged invertiblenipple, and also having front and back substantially fiat faces, saidfront face inclined toward said rear face in a direction away from saidmouth, the said front face having convexo-convex protuberances on theface thereof, some of said protuberances carry life-like figures andothers carry letters that are inverted and backward when viewed from thefront so as to 1 3 4 p'pear upright to feeding position when viewedthrough 1,595,618 Radford Aug. 10, 1926 the back face by the infant.1,982,282- Bock -5. Nov. 27, 1934 2,509,129 Buck May 23, 1950 ReferencesCited in the file of this patent 2,546,681 s rer M 27, 1951 UNITEDSTATES E T 5 2,630,932 Lestakis Mar. 10, 1953 1,032,610 Kern July 16,19,12 FOREIGN PATENTS 1,122,306 Re'schke Dec. 29, 19.14 1,113 GreatBritai 1398 1,399,313 Newell Dec. 6, 1921 387,917 France May 18, 1908

